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TIL that to be certified as “bear-resistant”, a container needs to survive a 60-minute mauling by a grizzly bear

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4lmg TIL a woman fell after summiting Everest. Her husband died trying to rescue her. Two climbers comforted her before leaving her to die because they couldn’t carry her. After much guilt, they went back 8 years later to enshrine her body. Her husband was found a year later.
wL1W TIL that The Guinness Book of Records was originally published by Guinness Breweries as a reference for settling pub arguments
R7JPa TIL Viagra is given to some premature babies to increase oxygen transport by widening the blood vessels, as their lungs often haven't developed enough to transport oxygen efficiently on their own
W74O4 TIL before Tom Hardy became an actor, he made a mixtape entitled Falling on your Arse and would regularly rap under the name Tommy No 1
nMpb TIL A man named Ota Benga was held in a zoo in 1906, 40 years after the end of slavery in the U.S. He was in a cage with an Orangutan. Atendance at the zoo doubled over the time he was there, and 40,000 people visited the zoo in a single day.